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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9780790747422 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790747421 Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 085391786221 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 11, 2000 Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Editorial Review: Product Description: George Clooney Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube star in "Three Kings" the story of a small band of American soldiers in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War who seek adventure and fortune in attempting to steal a huge cache of gold hidden somewhere in the desert. Along the way they are confronted by heroic challenges and newfound discoveries that take them to places they could never have imagined.Running Time: 121 min.System Requirements:Starring: George Clooney Mark Wahlberg Ice Cube Spike Jonze Nora Dunn Jamie Kennedy Mykelti Williamson Cliff Curtis and Said Taghmaoui. Directed By: David O. Russell. Running Time: 115 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2000 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391786221 Amazon.com: A confident hybrid of M*A*S*H, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Dr. Strangelove, Three Kings is one of the most seriously funny war movies ever made. Improving the premise of Kelly's Heroes with scathing intelligence, it explores the odd connection between war and consumerism in the age of Humvees and cellular phones. Writer-director David O. Russell's third film (after Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster), it's a no-holds-barred portrait of personal conscience in the volatile arena of politics, played out by one of the most gifted filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich) play a quartet of U.S. soldiers who, disillusioned by Operation Desert Storm, decide to steal $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's army. Getting the bullion out of an Iraqi stronghold is easy; keeping it is a potentially lethal proposition. By the end of their mercenary mission, the Americans can no longer ignore wartime atrocities (and neither can we--the film is boldly unflinching), and conscience demands their aid to Iraqi rebels abandoned by President George Bush's fickle wartime policy. This is serious stuff indeed, but Russell infuses Three Kings with a keen sense of the absurd, and the entire film is an exercise in breathtaking visual ingenuity. Despite a conventional ending that's mildly disappointing for such a brashly original film, Three Kings conveys the brutal madness of war while making you laugh out loud at the insanity. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Just As Good As I RememberedI remember how much I enjoyed this movie in the theaters and had not seen it for quite ahwile so I picked up the DVD. It was just as I remembered it - engaging and engrossing from the beginning to the end. Clooney, Wahlberg and the others all turn in solid performances. (After Boogie Nights and the performance here, it was pretty evident Mark Wahlberg was going to be very good.) The plot, twists and turns keeps you going. Though it may be broadly similar as "Kelly's Heroes" ... Read More Rating:  - Loud shoot-em-upPost Gulf War tale of three US soldiers who plan a heist of Kuwait gold stolen by Saddam. Quick cutting makes for quick action. The morality at the center is the meat of the movie. Clooney is pretty good, and Ice Cube is the new Jim Brown. Less overall than it could have been. Filmed in Arizona, but pretty convincing scenery. Rating:  - Three AbdicationsMy struggle with THREE KINGS is that I viewed it the first time in the mistaken belief that it was an updated version of KELLY'S HEROES. Additionally as a veteran of the first Gulf War I found very little in this movie to remind me of those first confusing weeks immediately after the cease fire. In THREE KINGS we find a group of Desert Storm GIs, led by George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube, setting off on an unauthorized search for a cache of Iraqi gold. So far, so good. During ... Read More Rating: - "We three kings be stealin' the gold." It's 1991 and the Persian Gulf war is at an end. A cynical captain (played by George Clooney), two noncoms (Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg) and a nincompoop (Spike Jonze) are sent into the border zone to clean up. Instead, they stumble across an enormous cache of gold bullion, all nicely laid out in heavy ingot bars. The gold is SUPPOSED to go straight back to Kuwait from where it was stolen, but . . . No spoilers here, just to say this is a very entertaining and informative movie ... Read More Rating: - Surprisingly GoodI didn't expect much from this movie, but it turned out to be quite entertaining. It had a certain realism to it, and I like that, instead of the absurd storylines that are so frequent these days. |
